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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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The revolution starts now.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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